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The silver lining to being on lockdown is that we’ve all got the opportunity to prepare and enjoy home cooked meals. In order to cook good, wholesome food for your family every day, you need a well-stocked store cupboard of good-quality basics. We’ve put together a list of essentials to help guide you through the next few weeks… Preserved Vegetables: With fridge space limiting how much fresh fruit and veg you can store and supermarket shelves stripped bare, one easy substitute to make in order to get your 5-a-day is adding in a portion of preserved vegetables. Kimchi and Sauerkraut...

Many fermentation journeys begin with sauerkraut. It’s a versatile, forgiving ferment making it perfect for beginners to experiment with. INGREDIENTS 1x head white cabbage Salt 2-2.5% by weight of cabbage (we use Himalayan pink salt, but sea salt works just as well - just steer clear of table salt!) 1 TBS Caraway Seeds   METHOD 1. Remove and reserve the outer leaves of the cabbage. 2. Core the cabbage and finely slice/shread. 3. Add salt to the shredded cabbage and massage and turn until the cabbage releases it’s water and a bribe is formed (this stage can take 10-15 minutes)...

Welcome to the first instalment of The Cultured Collective's new blog series Eat & Greet where we're talking all things food, health and wellness with some of our favourite people and sharing delicious recipes to inspire you to get experimenting with kimchi and sauerkraut. Hello Eva! Please introduce yourself to our readers... Hey, I'm Eva Humphries, a BANT registered nutritionist with a realistic view of healthy eating. Somewhere along the way, we managed to make nutrition super complicated so I do my best to debunk those diet myths and encourage individuals to eat more "whole", unprocessed, foods. I'm a firm...

Our Founder Nikki sold The Cultured Collective's first jar of kimchi at London's Primrose Hill Farmers Market in 2016. Fast forward a few years and our fine ferments are gracing the shelves of some of the country's leading retailers. We sat down with Nikki to chat about how and why she did it... "The Cultured Collective’s roots are in Western Australia, where I lived for most of my 20s. I was a new graduate and had recently started working as a Geologist in the mining industry. Like most people, I was struggling to balance a demanding new career and social...